Program

Pre-workshop Activity:

This workshop will utilize information from your institution and regional environmental issues that you can incorporate into a EJ (Environmental Justice) activity. Prior to the workshop, please consider collecting the following data from your institution and region.

1. Describe the age, race/ethnicity, socio-economic background of your students attending your classes. These factors often play a significant role in how students conceptualize issues that are important in teaching EJ concepts.

2. Identify up to three environmental issues that can be found in your region that students would be familiar with.

Monday

8:30-11:30

Agenda:

Introductions
PowerPoint Presentation: Day 1 (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 11.2MB Jul18 17)
What is EJ and how does is fit into the context of a introductory Earth Science course
Overview of the InTeGrate Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resource module
Discussion of various active pedagogy techniques that can be utilized in teaching EJ
begin development of individual EJ course projects
Monday Roadcheck

11:30 Adjourn for the day

Tuesday

8:30 - 11:30

Agenda:

Overview of previous day material and discussions
Successful assessment techniques for EJ
Panel discussion on the challenges and successes in incorporating EJ into a Earth Science course.
Tuesday Roadcheck

Wednesday

8:30 - 11:15 Workshop evaluation

Agenda:

Group work and discussion of take-home EJ projects
End of workshop evaluation

Additional Resources

Contributed by Wendi Williams:
The example mentioning Haiti made me think of Penn State's 4-part "Geospatial Revolution" streaming videos. Each are about 10 minutes long with professional captioning. If you go to YouTube for Geospatial Revolution:

Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=poMGRbfgp38 (I think this is the one that has Haiti)
Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GXS0bsR0e7w
Episode 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=OePOK6nzcaY
Episode 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9F7z9LLYxf8

Episodes 1 and 4 have very clear geosci applications...*but*, the other episodes really do show applications that I think are broad EJ applications that "capture" students interests and possible connection to what they want to major in (e.g. criminal justice, business, teacher, etc).

Contributed by Amy Telligman: